How to strip only multiple whitespace in a string PHP

Question

I want to remove only multiple white space in a string.

Example:

I am Mert Inal , so[multible white space here]I[multible white space here]can do that

It's must be:

I am Mert Inal soIcan do that

Possible duplicate of [Remove multiple whitespaces](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2326125/remove-multiple-whitespaces) — frobinsonj, Jun 07 '19 at 09:37

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 07 '19 at 09:33

2

Try using preg_replace with the pattern \s{2,}, and replace with empty string:

$input = "I am Mert Inal , so    I    can do that";
$output = preg_replace("/\s{2,}/", "", $input);
echo $output;

This outputs:

I am Mert Inal , soIcan do that

answered Jun 07 '19 at 09:33

Tim Biegeleisen

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 07 '19 at 12:12

0

you can try

$string = "I am Mert Inal , so  I   ";

echo preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ',$string);

Output:

I am Mert Inal , so I .

Note:
/s is also applicable for \n\r\t.

edited Jun 07 '19 at 12:12

Wai Ha Lee

answered Jun 07 '19 at 10:57

2 Answers2